Concordia University, Nebraska

The Concordia University, Nebraska forensics team earned seven top-six finishes during the past two weekends at in-state forensics tournaments: the Hastings Bronco Bash tournament and the Battle for the Capital, hosted by the University of Nebraska Omaha as a swing tournament with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Concordia University, Nebraska forensics team members won three national championships and multiple finalist and semifinalist awards, as well as a second place Individual Events Sweepstakes overall, for Division III schools in the 19th annual National Christian College Forensics Invitational at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California, March 5-7, 2016.

Concordia University, Nebraska's trap and skeet team competed at a collegiate event for the first time as a full squad Sept. 27-28.

A team from Concordia University, Nebraska competed in the third annual Lutheran Church Extension Fund National Student Marketing Competition April 4 in St. Louis, Mo. This was the university's first time entering the competition.

Concordia University, Nebraska's computer science department sent two teams to the ACM North America North Central Regional Programming Contest, held Nov. 3 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Contest sites were spread across the region for contestants to participate. The teams, made up of three members each, competed in the day-long event against hundreds of other teams across the region, writing computer programs to solve nine different problems within a five-hour time period. The Association for Computing Machinery hosts the contest each year from locations around the North Central region, made up of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Western Ontario, Manitoba, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and part of Michigan. The top teams in regional competition advance to the world finals, to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 30-July 4, 2012. All contests this year are sponsored by IBM. Concordia team members included: